WHEN THE WIND BLEW
by Margaret Wise Brown & illustrated by Geoffrey Hayes
Margaret Wise Brown's early, tender, truly sad story about the old, old lady warmed back to life—when "her toothache was all that there seemed to be in the world"—by her little blue gray kitten, is a perilous choice for picture-book revival, being long on atmosphere and short on action; but to succeed at all it needs far more resonant pictures than these configurations, which have neither drawing, detail, nor conception to commend them.